Dual Booting Windows and Knoppix

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Xelogen

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hey ive currently got windows xp home and was wondering what the safest way to set up Knoppix 3.7 as a second operating system. I have a 40GB partitioned hard drive (just the usual C: drive and D: rescue drive) with about 7 gig left on the C drive. Thanks in advance for any help
 
I'm pretty sure Knoppix runs entirely from CD, making it so that it doesn't run off the HD. What exactly are you asking?
 
Well if you're planning on getting Ubuntu on your 7GB left... you'll need to get a partitioning program like Partition Majic to convert the 7GB from FAT32 to Linux. Otherwise, you could just add a new blank hard drive to your machine and install Ubuntu on that.
 
would it just install onto a second HDD without any partitioning needed?? cos it would be NTFS and you said something about converting to linux... and does anyone know how to get a version of linux that is using KNOME to recognise hard drives from windows xp?? knoppix does it since its running KDE but ubuntu and morphix dont seem to :(
 
Every standard 2.4-2.6 version Linux core (i.e. last years builds) completely work with vfat and safely read from NTFS. The usual problem is that Linux can't write to NTFS or makes it unsafely. But even if Linux don't know any file system it'll see its HDD and partition as Windows. If installer doesn't recorgnize NTFS during installation you need to edit it manually. Something like
mount -t ntfs
but it's different for each Linux systems.
 
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